The Legionnaires' disease outbreak that occurred from November 2003 to January 2004 in the Lens region raised many questions due to its scale, geographic scope, and duration. Experts...

With an incidence rate of 10.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2002, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region ranks second in France (after Île-de-France) in terms of the incidence rate of...

The incidence of nosocomial bacteremia varies across studies from 0.27% to 4.9% of admissions, or 0.8 per 1,000 hospital days. Bacteremia is associated with an increased length of...

Podiatrists are members of the paramedical professions. Training lasts three years, and as of January 1, 2001, there were 9,059 podiatrists practicing in metropolitan France (source:...

In March 2002, the school district superintendent and the Haute-Saône Health Education Committee established a multidisciplinary working group bringing together school health services,...

Sonacotra (National Housing Construction Company for Workers) was established in 1956, initially to house Algerian workers. In the 1990s, these housing complexes were gradually converted...

In April 2003, the National AIDS Council expressed concern about the spread of HIV/AIDS in the overseas departments and called for improvements to the measures in place to combat the...

The French region most affected by obesity is Upper Normandy, with a prevalence rate of 13.8% across all age groups in 2000, compared to the French average of 9.6%. The Regional Health...

The vast majority of the 15,000 deaths in the summer of 2003 can be attributed to a twofold lack of awareness: a lack of awareness of the danger posed by extreme heat, and a...

In the Rhône-Alpes region, a pilot program for the prevention and management of oral health care is designed for people with disabilities. It focuses on providing information and...